Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-23
GENERAL NEWS

A party of visitors were frightfully man
at Pottsville, Pa.
The emperor of Austria has sent his
photograph in q silver frame to General
kaulbars of Russia as token of regard.
1T is positively denied that Lord Dunraven
and Balfcur of Burleigh are drafting 10
cal government scheme for Ireland.
Mary Hardmap, of Cleveland, O., fell in
to tank of boiling maple sugar, at her
fathers camp, and was scalded to death.
Fire at Spring Garden, Pa, destroyed
twenty-one frame houses, causing loss of
$4,000. Thirty five families are homeless.
Captain j. G. DAILY end Mervine Thomp-
son have signed articles for q fight for 81
COO within four weeks, either in Cleveland
or New York state.
Cardinal Simeoni has been instructed to
investigate the Irish question as concerns
the clergy of the country and prepare in
Structions for the Irish bishops.
A suit was fled in the circuit court at
Baltimore to secure the sale of q piece Of
real estate. The president, Mrs. Cleveland,
Miss Rose and others are parties to the suit.
At trial of the speed of the cruiser "At-
lanta" the average rate Of fifteen and one
half knots an hour was maintained for three
consecutive hours, while at times the vessels
speed exceeded sixteen knots an hour.
A special from Buena Denver Republican
says: A rock slide occurred in the deep cut
ON the works of Kyner, Higbee d Bernard,
on the Midland grade near this place, in
which Mr.. Bernard was badly injured and
several men killed. Eight or ten men have
lost their lives and several others are more
or less injured.
The Springfield, Mo-, Light guard in
fantry company of the state militia has
disbanded after farewell parade, because
propriate money for the state militia.
A Fire in the laundry of Sing Sing prison
destroyed the roof and upper floor. The
oonvicts rendered aid in extinguishing the
flames.
Alumni of Columbia college, representing
every part of the country, gathered at New
York recently to celebrate the one hundretith
anniversary of the establishment of the
institution.
The steamship Gulnare, recently reported
on the Irish coast with q cargo of dyna mite,
is steadily engaged in the fruit trade between
New Orleans and the Bay islands.
The wife of Secretary Whitney, desiring
TO commemorate the christening of her in
FAINT daughter, gave 5000 to st. Johns
orphanage in Washington.
President Cleveland has pardoned three
obscure convicts from the southern Illinois
penitentiary, but refused to mi erfere in be-
half of B. L. o. Hubbard, the embezzling
Monmouth banker.
The survivors of General Pickett's confed-
crate division will on July 3 erect on the
field of Gettysburg monument of Virginia
granite to mark the spot where they made q
On farm near Lima, Ohio, Joseph Burch
killed his wife with hammer and hanged
himself by means of bark twisted into
moose.
A Paris journal asserts that England has
reduced the Haytian indemnity to $3.50, 900,
and has assured France that it has no inten-
ton of making an attack. Consequently the
French fleet has been ordered of Hsytian
waters.
A Hotel in the central portion of Amster
dam, crowded with strangers witnessing the
festivities connected with the king 3 birthday
took fire during the night and was wholly
burned. -Four lives we're lost, and many
ersons sustained serious injuries.
The wholesale drug store of the Charles
Baumbach company, located on Market
square, Milwaukee, was destroyed by fire.
Rudolph label, a clerk, was badly burned
by an explosion of varnish. The loss is
$175,000.
In the Dominion parliament recently Mr..
Weldon said the Canadians relied not upon
their military strength for settlement of
the fishery dispute, but upon the good judg-
ment of the people of the United States.
Mr.. Blake, leader of the opposition, censur-
ed the government for keeping the country
IN the dark as to negotiations in progress.
The governor of Wisconsin, at the request
of many influential citizens, has vetoed the
bill to prohibit stock gambling.
Robert w. Gatewood, young graduate
from Annapolis, having become crazed by
close application to study, killed himself on
board steamer bound to Norfolk, where
his father resided.
The first present for the new mayor of
Chicago is handsome Office chair with OK
horn frame.
The interstate commission will soon be
presented with petition for the suspension
of the long and short haul clause of the law
on through rates between Chicago and st.
Paul. A committee representing five roads
has gone to Washington from Chicago for
that purpose.